Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 21

• Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hypocrite, Mean, Use

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• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Motivational, Fitness

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• Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Knowledge, Acceptance, Reflection

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• Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Suffering, Degrees

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.754, Delphi Classics

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• Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

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  Animal, Men, Add

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• Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Marriage, Civilization, Pinnacle

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• Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Men, Wish

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• Few men have imagination enough for reality.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Reality, Men, Imagination

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• Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.

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  Country, Teacher, Teaching

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• The little man is still a man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Literature, Littles

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• You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Blue, Sky, World

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• Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hope, Encouragement, Appreciation

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.55

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• Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

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  Men, Limits, Use

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• We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.

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  Life, Moving, Thinking

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• The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Wish, Age

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Friedrich Zelter (1892). “Goethe's Letters to Zelter: With Extracts from Those of Zelter to Goethe”

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• We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Baby, Children

  Hermann and Dorothea pt. 3 (1797)

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• The happy do not believe in miracles.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Miracle, Believe In Miracles

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• It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

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  Knowledge, Wish, Enough

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• Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

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  Contradiction, Sameness, Productivity

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• Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Pain, Men, May

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• Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.

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  Art, Ideas, Experience

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• No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

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  Life, Nature, Men

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• A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

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  Life, Happiness, Vexation

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• Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;
  The last result of wisdom stamps it true;
  He only earns his freedom and existence
  Who daily conquers them anew.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Freedom, Persistence

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1912). “Faust”

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• Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

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  Inspirational, Art, Philosophy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.53, Ravenio Books

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